Comments on: Anders Hejlsberg is your new bicycle http://therealadam.com/archive/2008/04/02/anders-hejlsberg-is-your-new-bicycle/ Polymath practicing programming, probably procrastinating Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:30:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sam Smoot http://therealadam.com/archive/2008/04/02/anders-hejlsberg-is-your-new-bicycle/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Sam Smoot Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:40 +0000 http://therealadam.com/archive/2008/04/02/anders-hejlsberg-is-your-new-bicycle/#comment-212 Eh... Anders is also the guy who crippled c# with the "NO BYTECODE FOR J00!", making huge swaths of the BCL Sealed, and the single biggest bone-headed move of all time: Default Final Methods. So now he's following a trend and invented Extension Methods to get around his own mistakes without breaking the language. Most c# developers seem to worship Anders. After reading the PoEAA, and trying my hand at a .NET O/RM, I realized this is the guy who made all the cool stuff impossible. If any single person can take credit for the .NET to Ruby exodus, Anders is your man. Keep in mind he's also a big figure behind Delphi, so c# was an effort towards a more constricting protect-developers-from-the-sharp-knives type of language. Of course he's obviously a lot smarter than myself. And people learn... ;-) It's just hard to let go I suppose. :-D Eh… Anders is also the guy who crippled c# with the “NO BYTECODE FOR J00!”, making huge swaths of the BCL Sealed, and the single biggest bone-headed move of all time: Default Final Methods.

So now he’s following a trend and invented Extension Methods to get around his own mistakes without breaking the language.

Most c# developers seem to worship Anders. After reading the PoEAA, and trying my hand at a .NET O/RM, I realized this is the guy who made all the cool stuff impossible. If any single person can take credit for the .NET to Ruby exodus, Anders is your man.

Keep in mind he’s also a big figure behind Delphi, so c# was an effort towards a more constricting protect-developers-from-the-sharp-knives type of language.

Of course he’s obviously a lot smarter than myself. And people learn… ;-) It’s just hard to let go I suppose. :-D

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